Measuring apparatus for separators



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MEASURING APPARATUS FOR SEPARATORs.

No. 800,779. Patented June 24, 1884.

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. MEASURING APPARATUS FDR SEPARATORS. I Ila/300.779. Patented June 24,1884.

.Atiorn'eys JACOB HUG, OF ST.

Fries.

ATENT JACOBS, ILLINOIS.

MEASURING APPARATUS FOR SEPARATORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,779, dated June 24,1884.

Application filed February 16, 1884.

1' 0 all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J A0013 HUG, a citizen of the United States,residingat St. J acobs, in the county of Madison and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Measuring Attachment for Separators, of whichT the following is a specifiation, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a portionofagrain-separatorhavingniyimprovedmeasuring attachment secured to theleft-hand side of the same. Fig. 2 is a side view of theattachmentsecured to the right-hand side of the separator. Fig. 3 is a detail viewof the connection between the elevator and the conveyer at theright-hand side of the separator. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of themeasuring attachment. Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal secitonal viewof the same. Figs. 6 and 7 are detail views; and Fig. 8 is a detail viewof the bottom of the measuring-box, showing the curved tooth-bar Z andthe distending-lever for hold ing the sack while being filled.

This invention has relation to measuring attachments for grainseparators and baggers; and it consists in the construction and novelarrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, andparticularly pointed out in the claims appended.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates agrain-separator of any approved construction, provided with thenecessary shafts, pulleys, and belting to run the elevator, conveyor,820. From pulley 0 acrossbelt runs to pulleyFto drive the elevator, and

a short cross-belt runs from a pulley, R, to a pulley, E, to drive theconveyer. When the belt is thrown off of the pulley E, the conveyerremains idle and the grain falls from the elevator to the measuring-box,hereinafter denear its front face, to receive the hooks e e on (N0model.)

hand side of the separator, beneath the end of the conveyer. Themeasuring-box f is provided with a pivoted bottom, 9, journaled inbearing-plates g on the outside of the box f. The lower end of the box fis contracted, as shown, and the journals are at the rear edge of thepivoted bottom 9. The journals of the bottom 9 project through theirbearings, and one of the journals is provided with a hand-lever, h,provided with a spring, 7L, and working in a ratchet-guard, 7L2, securedto the end of the box f, as shown. The box f is provided with a cut-offslide working through a slot, 'i, in the front side of the box, and inguidesz", attached to the inner faces of the other three walls of thebox, as shown. Above the pivoted bottom 9 beveled strips 17 are securedto the inner faces of the walls of the box, to prevent any accidentalescape of grain around the edges of the pivoted bottom 9. Themeasuring-box f is so constructed that the space between the pivotedbottom and the cutoff slide is j ust large enough to holdabushel ofgrain. An opening or view hole, k, is provided in one end of the box f,whereby the interior may be inspected to as certain at what time abushel of grain has accumulated in the measuring-box. A rectangulartoothed bar, Z, extends along the ends and across under the contractedmouth or discharge of the measuring-box to form a sack-holder, and themouth of the sack to be filled is engaged with the teeth of this curvedbar. The front side of the measuring-box f is provided with anangle-lever, m, fulcrumed in a hearing, an, and provided with a hook, mat its lower end. This lever m is provided with a detent which engagesthe teeth of a curved slotted rack, n, pivoted to the front of themeasuring-box above the fulcrum of the lever m. This lever m is used todistend the mouth of the sack while it is being filled by means of thehook m The right-hand side of the easing of the separator is alsoprovided with uprights 0 o and a cross-strip, 0 something similar tothose on the left-hand side, having the groove in the strip 0 and astaple for'the hook c", in order that the measuring-box f may bedetached from the left-hand side and attached to the right-hand sidedirectly under the elevatordischarge. When this change is made, the beltis thrown off of the pulley E, so that the con- 1. The combination, withthe separator-cas- 3 5 ing having right-hand and left-hand receivingattachments, of a detachable measuring-box veyer remains idle. Thebottom plate, h, having a hooked edge, h, and staple-openings h is thensprung from its staples and slipped out of its groove, so that theelevator-discharge will open into the measuring-box f and the grain willbe measured directly from the elevator without passing through theconveyer. The fan-shaft q is secured in bearings, one of which issecured to the upright of the casing and the other to theelevator-casing, as shown. A belt from the pulley 0 runs to a pulley, H,on the shaft q, and a cross-belt runs from the pulley onthe shaft q tothe pulley L, before described.

The measuring-box and the entire arrangement of belts, shaftiug, andpulleys are simple and easily operated, and the grain can be measuredaccurately from either the conveyer or directly from theelevator-discharge and conveyed, through the instrumentality of themeasuring-box, to the sack in which it is to be transported. The top ofthe measuring-box f is provided with a cut-away portion, 1", and a bevelportion, which adapts it to fit under the elevator-casing when attachedto the righthand side of the separator, so that the grain will beproperly delivered to the box. When the box contains a bushel of grain,the cut-off slide is pushed in and the bottom of the box is opened topermit the bushel thus measured to run into the sack beneath the box.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is-

having a cut-oil slide and a pivoted bottom operated by a lever engaginga holding-rack, and hook attachments adapted to engage the receivingattachments on the separator-casing, substantially as specified.

2. The measuring-box having the pivoted bottom in its contracted endoperated by a lever provided with a spring for holding it in engagementwith a curved rack secured to the outside of the box, in combinationwith the cut-off slide working in ways secured to three sides of theinterior of the box and through a slot in the front of the same,substantially as specified.

3. The combination,with the measuring-box having the pivoted bottom, ofthe rectangular toothed bar .1, extending along the ends and acrossunder the contracted portion of the box, and the angulardistending-lever having ahook at its lower end, and the pivotedguard-rack n, for holding the sack while'being filled from themeasuring-box, substantially as specified.

In testimonythat I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

J AOOB HUG.

Witnesses:

GODFREY J. HANNI, SAMUEL FREY, Jr.

